Glenn Beck's newest brainchild - Beck University

Just when you thought Beck couldn't get any more out there, I give you Beck University. I hear his TV ratings have been crashing, so maybe he's hoping this new gimmick will draw some new viewers, or maybe it's just a marketing schtick for his "extreme insider" subscriptions or a ploy to give his widely panned novel a boost in what I've heard are rather limp sales. Or maybe he's just gone off the deep end and really believes he's the messiah, chosen to save humanity from those horridly liberal, Marxist, communist, fascist, socialist academics.

Crooks and Liars has the details on this new, on-line bastion of higher learning where the principles of Faith, Hope and Charity will lovingly taught by the likes of such brilliant minds as the guy who rewrote the textbooks in Texas to conform with the true conservative version and evangelical theology. Wonkette has the syllabus.

Hey it's the holiday weekend. Thought we all could use a laugh. Or at least a smirk.